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+# Copyright 2013-2021 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC and other
+# Spack Project Developers. See the top-level COPYRIGHT file for details.
+#
+# SPDX-License-Identifier: (Apache-2.0 OR MIT)
+
+from spack import *
+
+
+class OctaveInstrctl(OctavePackage, SourceforgePackage):
+    """Instrument-Control is a package for interfacing the outside world of hardware
+    via Serial, i2c or Parallel interfaces."""
+
+    homepage = "https://octave.sourceforge.io/instrument-control/"
+    sourceforge_mirror_path = "octave/instrument-control-0.3.1.tar.gz"
+
+    version('0.3.1', sha256='d9c3b2e258cc8245ebfdd282e6314af12987daf453f4356555f56ca5ec55873c')
+
+    extends('octave@3.6.0:')